After 9,000 years of cultivation, rice has reached its thermal limit. Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant, but over the next 50 years, global warming will accelerate to a pace that is 5,000 times faster than rice has ever had to contend with at any time during its evolutionary history.

After 9,000 years of cultivation, rice has reached its thermal limit. Rice has historically been a heat-loving plant, but over the next 50 years, global warming will accelerate to a pace that is 5,000 times faster than rice has ever had to contend with at any time during its evolutionary history.

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-years-cultivation-rice-thermal-limit.html

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